Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Color by Pancha Diaz
  • About Us
  • Cast
  • Store
  • Extras
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Our Patreon
RSS
2019-05-03
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(47) Next › Last ››

2019-05-03

by shaenon on May 3, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
Comments RSS

Discussion (47) ¬

  1. thejoemoose
    May 3, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Never thought I’d hear ‘robot racism’ in a sentence. (Lighten up, will you lil’ pony.)

    • Frank
      May 3, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      so long as he’s not your li’l pony

    • Gyrre
      May 3, 2019, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      There’s an old comic book that involves it between blue and orange robots.

    • Mental Mouse
      May 3, 2019, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

      I recall near the end of Pohl’s “Midas World” collection, a robot finds his neighbors calling him “Spam can”, for being too welcoming to the humans who moved in.

  2. Moe Lane
    May 3, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Nice use of the Uhura’s Phaser gambit, there.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    May 3, 2019, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    There’s also the consideration that trash talking the nice people who might rescue you from the death that you couldn’t organize to save yourselves from isn’t exactly prudent. 😛

    • Candace
      May 3, 2019, 2:32 am | # | Reply

      The Baron has never really shown any evidence of having any social graces whatsoever.

      • Shadowmehr
        May 3, 2019, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        In the words of Terry Pratchett, the Baron has “charisn’tma”. It’s effective for some things, not usually those things dealing with people.

  4. Bruce A Munro
    May 3, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Steam powered robot: “just the sort of comment I’d expect from one of you elitist, sissy _electrical_ models.”

    (Isn’t his pal Monstro windup? He’s got a key in his back, or dorsal fin as the case may be)

    • Khno
      May 3, 2019, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      (token friend?)
      Also M seems to be rather popular among the cybernetic crowd

    • Towering Barbarian
      May 3, 2019, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      2 possibilities:

      1. The Baron has nothing against windups in general. It’s just *this* particular gang of windups he hates. They do seem to be neighbors so personality clashes or border disputes in the past are not beyond the realm of reason.

      2. Terry Pratchett once described Cohen the Barbarian as “one of those prejudiced people who made themselves extra annoying to well-intentioned liberals by getting along with the people they were prejudiced against better than the well-intentioned liberals did.”.

      The Baron being another example of this by dint of not letting what he thinks of groups get in the way of how he treats individuals is also within the realm of possibility. ^_^

      • awgiedawgie
        May 3, 2019, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

        I think the Baron hates everyone equally.

        • Bruce A Munro
          May 3, 2019, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

          “Robots shaped like children’s toys? Man, I hate those guys.” 🙂

      • Khno
        May 4, 2019, 5:42 am | # | Reply

        1. and 2. strike me as a class conflict.

  5. tornadominds
    May 3, 2019, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Now now there’s no need to get wound up over another robot’s power source.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 3, 2019, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

      (*rimshot*)

    • awgiedawgie
      May 3, 2019, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

      The Baron just doesn’t see it as the key to success.

  6. Robert Nowall
    May 3, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Now, listen up, bozos, that’s the way to do it.
    You get your windups from the note-a-ree.
    Don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it
    Funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free

    Now, don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
    Let me tell you, those bots aren’t dumb.
    Maybe get assistance from the robot wringer.
    Maybe get assistance from the drive-as-thumb.

    We gotta work with microwave ovens.
    All the kitchen price warranties.
    We organize these refrigerators.
    We organize these color TVs.

    See the little robot from the Whimsey park and rakeoff.
    Yeah, Baron, he’s the compere.
    That little robot has his own safe server,
    That little robot, he’s a racist square.

    We gotta work with microwave ovens.
    All the kitchen price warranties.
    We organize these refrigerators.
    We organize these color TVs.

    You should’a learned to spray the flamethrower.
    You should’a learned to spray those guns.
    Look at that robot, got some fusion in her power.
    Yeah, wow, part of Annex One.

    And who’s up there, what’s that, some battle noises?
    You’re hangin’ round this tourney like a detainee.
    Oh, don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
    You’ll be funny ‘bout somethin’, and the bots are free.

    We gotta work with microwave ovens.
    All the kitchen price warranties.
    We organize these refrigerators.
    We organize these color TVs.

    Listen up.
    Now don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
    We’ll get the windups from the note-a-ree.
    Don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it,
    Funny ‘bout somethin’ and the bots are free.

    Just be funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free.
    Just be funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free
    (I want the, I want the, I want the note-a-ree…)

    —from “Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits.

    • Candace
      May 3, 2019, 2:39 am | # | Reply

      Well-done!

    • Manifesta
      May 3, 2019, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      Wonderful!

      • Robert Nowall
        May 3, 2019, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

        Well, I couldn’t get anything done on Monday ’cause my phone / cable / net access was cut off till mid-afternoon, after which time my life tends to be busy. (Retirement does *not* give you more time for anything.)

    • Moe Lane
      May 4, 2019, 12:00 am | # | Reply

      Oh, that’s very good.

  7. Owlmirror
    May 3, 2019, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    “Over the Idaho border” . . . but before that, over a chunk of Olympic peninsula, over Puget Sound, over the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia urban and suburban corridor, over the whole damn Cascade mountain range, and over a zillion miles of western Washington state, first.

    Do these people think they’re in Spokane or something?

    • greenknight32
      May 3, 2019, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      Hope they’re wound real tight, ’cause they’ve got over 200 miles to go.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 3, 2019, 8:24 am | # | Reply

        You could say that about practically any character in “Skin Horse.”

    • CCC
      May 3, 2019, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      Tigerlily Jones has made a wind-up teleportation device once before…

      • Owlmirror
        May 3, 2019, 7:26 am | # | Reply

        So, she builds one with a bunch of coathangers, sends herself over with a bunch more and builds another . . , yeah, I guess it could work.

        “A Queen of Lovetron is not bound by space or time!”

        Actually, now I’m wondering — does Tip still have the coathanger-teleporter in his closet, or did it destroy itself in the process of teleporting Tigerlily, or did Tip dismantle it because he needed room for clothing, duh?

  8. Otakubouzu
    May 3, 2019, 2:35 am | # | Reply

    This Robot Racism remind me to a chapter of ‘Zannen Jokanbu Black General-san’
    where a Robot Yakuza (yes, that a thing in that manga) express his concern that his underlings (robot too) likes ‘Real Robot’ more than ‘Super Robot’.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      May 3, 2019, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      Did the Robot Yakuza ever have a turf war with the Robot Mafia (the entire Robot Mafia)?

      • Otakubouzu
        May 3, 2019, 5:14 am | # | Reply

        No Robo Mafia yet.

        Chapter in question:
        https://mangadex.org/chapter/430682/1

  9. bryceanderston
    May 3, 2019, 4:22 am | # | Reply

    Robots being racist to other robots is the sort of idea that I wish I had come up with.

  10. Owlmirror
    May 3, 2019, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    Tigerlily is hardly one to talk about robot racism, given that just a few years ago, she was proclaiming a non-windup-robot enslavement and genocide.

  11. bergerjacques
    May 3, 2019, 8:58 am | # | Reply

    “Crack that unicorn back”
    Get on up
    “Crack that unicorn back”
    SLAP!
    “Crack that unicorn back”
    Huh!
    “Crack that unicorn back”

  12. Rob Nobody
    May 3, 2019, 10:26 am | # | Reply

    I love that, in nearly any other webcomic, “I built a funkbot armada to fight notaries” would be an unexplained Noodle Incident gag. But not here!

    • Nick
      May 3, 2019, 10:31 am | # | Reply

      You can kinda tell that Skin Horse is entering endgame through the sheer number of callbacks in the recent storylines.

      • Frank
        May 3, 2019, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

        hey, spoilers!

        • Robert Nowall
          May 3, 2019, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

          Hardly all that can be. Did Claire Connelly and Zombie Ben Franklin ever pursue their relationship? Did Dr. Haller ever catch up with Mr. Berk? With the safe house found deserted, what happened to the other cobras?

    • Frank
      May 3, 2019, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      I love that our “innocent teenager” doesn’t even bat an eye at it

      • awgiedawgie
        May 3, 2019, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

        She’s more like 21 or 22, but yeah. Of course, her mom is in some kind of espionage-ish work, so she probably doesn’t bat an eye at much.

      • Mental Mouse
        May 3, 2019, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

        She’s been chasing X-files stuff for a while, including a trip through Anasigma’s headquarters. Not to mention dealing with a precog boyfriend.

    • John Campbell
      May 4, 2019, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      My favorite of those were Unity’s Panda Incidents.

  13. awgiedawgie
    May 3, 2019, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

    I always read on this site anyway, so it doesn’t make much difference to me, but it may interest you to know that goComics still doesn’t have today’s comic up.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 3, 2019, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

      I do know it was in my goComics e-mail this morning.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 4, 2019, 4:36 am | # | Reply

        You say it was in your e-mail? Because it wasn’t in mine. And Saturday’s isn’t in my email either. And the most recent one on the goComics website (as of 4:30am) is from May 2nd.

        • Robert Nowall
          May 4, 2019, 10:31 am | # | Reply

          My mistake; it wasn’t in mine, either, I was looking at the printout from the day before.

          It isn’t in this morning’s e-mail, either.

          • awgiedawgie
            May 4, 2019, 10:43 am | #

            Don’t get me wrong… I wouldn’t put it past GoComics to screw up that badly.

          • Robert Nowall
            May 4, 2019, 11:35 am | #

            Yeah, definitely. Look at all their comics in repeats that freeze up for months at a time.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

More by Jeff

  • The Scrivnarium

More by Shaenon

  • Horror Every Day
  • Li'l Mell
  • Monster of the Week
  • Narbonic
  • Shaenon.com
Creative Commons License
Skin Horse by Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.skin-horse.com.

©2007-2022 Skin Horse | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Back to Top ↑